Electrocution, [small] – Historic Reproduction
![Electrocution, [small], [1917] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9caa113a1f5c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Electrocution, [small], preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Electrocution, [small]
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Among the Library's Bellows lithographs, this small version of *Electrocution* shows an execution in stark black and white, with the chair and onlookers reduced to a few hard masses. George Bellows made the image in 1917, drawing on his observation of an electrocution at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, where the state had used the electric chair since 1890. The print is signed in pencil, and Bellows's restraint is worth noticing: he shows little of the condemned man, letting the setting and the silent witnesses carry the weight of the scene.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 21 x 30 cm. |
| Notes | Bellows, 55. No. 20. Signed in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 49. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127041 |
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